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    Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:28

Given a collection of some 250 CDs how would you store them? Alphabetical makes them easier to find. Chronological gives you a better idea of what was around at certain eras, (some surprises there). Could just chuck 'em in any old way and take pot luck.

How do you store yours?
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Given that I have over 2000 cd's, alphabetical is the ONLY way to go!
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alphabetical by band within genres

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What he said^

group them by year, then alphabetical
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By band, alphabetically, then broken into chronological order. I've got upwards of 300 prog CDs now and about 500-600 rock, pop, blues, country, compiliations and such. If they weren't in alpha order, I'd never find what I'm lookin' for.  I have piles and piles of MP3 discs that I need to go through and figure what can stay (because I haven't bought it legally) and what needs to go (since I now have a legal copy).

I keep my prog/jazz/instrumental music seperate from the other stuff... my kids never put stuff back where they got it and they don't touch my prog collection, except for Pink Floyd, of course.

 

 
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Originally posted by Walker Walker wrote:

Given that I have over 2000 cd's, alphabetical is the ONLY way to go!

 

2000 classical music CDs, alphabetical by composer (only operas separately).

1200 pop/rock CDs, alphabetical by artist/band.

150 new age/crossover CDs, alphabetical by artist/band.

200 jazz CDs, mainly sorted in instrimental versus vocal.

500 mandarin pop/rock CDs sorted by my wife. God knows what system....

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-->Genre

---->Band/Artists (alphabetically)

------->Album (by Year)
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I have probably over a thousand cd's,so I arrange mine alphabetically.


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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:43

I try to keep them together by Artist. Dosen't matter after that. 

Also, huge piles of CD's are also very common here. 
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Mine are stored in piles and boxes all over the place! I have absolutely no classification system whatsoever. It makes finding a CD Hell. But it's also fun to suddenly come across a CD I've not heard for ages. One of these years I'll have to get around to sorting them all out (who am I kidding?).

 

 
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Mine are sorted by emotional relationships.

(Anyone seen "Hi-fidelity"?Wink)
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Or you could do like that character from Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" and organizing them autobiographicly...
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Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

Mine are stored in piles and boxes all over the place! I have absolutely no classification system whatsoever. It makes finding a CD Hell. But it's also fun to suddenly come across a CD I've not heard for ages. One of these years I'll have to get around to sorting them all out (who am I kidding?).

 

 

Hey you got the same system as me!.....really though I've got nowhere to put them. they're in boxes in wardrobes and cluttered around the stereos. Total chaos!

 
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I would organise them by colour and then smell.
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Originally posted by spectral spectral wrote:

I would organise them by colour and then smell.


Or by the label the album was released on and then by what the artist had for breakfast the morning it was recorded.
 
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Alphabetical VS Chronological ?

Alphabetical - A trick of the tales from topographic ocean - 7.5/10

Chronological - Piper at the gates of delirium - 7.5/10

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By catalog number.
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Originally posted by NetsNJFan NetsNJFan wrote:

-->Genre

---->Band/Artists (alphabetically)

------->Album (by Year)

Thumbs UpYes, that's how I do it, too, so Led Zeppelin, for example, come before Los Lobos in my pop/rock section, and LZ1 before LZ2, etc. The sections I use are: pop(ular)/rock (includes prog, thus I don't need to worry if a given artist is "prog" or not); jazz/fusion/new age/electronic/world (thus Tangerine Dream are in the same section that includes Miles Davis, Andreas Vollenweider, Brazilian music, & the Gipsy Kings -- I have fewer of those discs, so seperate sections are not needed; classical/baroque/medieval/opera; Celtic/folk/traditional; and a miscellaneous "catch-all" category that includes comedy and soundtracks.

Very easy to find a given disc right away (for me), but if you look for my Brand X discs in among the stuff that contains the prog, you won't find them -- they're in the jazz section.

As long as your filing system makes sense to YOU, and you can readily find any CD within seconds, you have an effective system.Smile



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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:15

I have my collection Sorted Out by:

  • Alphabetically by Artist:
    • Chronologically by Year

And if that wasn't enough I reorganize it out every 2 or 3 weeks so I can integrate new CDs that I have bought. Quite a monotonous task, really.
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Points: 819 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:29
I started to build an Access database in order to classify my record collection, but I stopped when reached a hundred entries...
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